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and be an indian. you had to be a quarter cheyenne or a quarter arapaho or hopefully a quarter and a quarter. the reason for this was quite clear. they were identifying indians for purposes of allotting them individual parcels of land in the existing reservation base at that point. if they ran out of indians identifiable as such, then the rest of the land would be declared surplus. so it was clearly in the interests of the government to create a definition of indianness that would minimize the number of indians that were available. it was an economic motivation for the application of this genetic criteria to indianness in the first place. it